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TIL there are two Chili's in Saudi Arabia

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1Wrr TIL that Snorri Thorfinnsson, born between 1004 and 1013 in present day Newfoundland, was the first person with European parents to be born in North America
5YEBr TIL that as part of their "armed neutrality" policy, Switzerland strongly considered building nuclear weapons and acquired 10 tons of uranium in the early 1960s, with plans to make up to 100 bombs
8a0R8 TIL Ricky Gervais was an 1980s Pop Sensation in the Philippines
eLGn TIL the term “third world country” has nothing to do with poverty, it simply refers to countries after WW2 that did not align with either the Western US aligned coalition or the Soviet bloc.
rPv0 TIL NASA and the German Aerospace Center shoved a big ass telescope inside a 747 so it could work above the clouds.